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... Equation (6) is not a new relationship (e.g. it appeared in Gantmacher, 1959, Vol. II, Ch. XIV), but it has important implications that have not been fully appreciated by demographers. To begin, it indicates that ... See full document

... To summarize, it seems one reason deviations in the estimates for the vocational degree category in the imputed, as compared to the original, histories are so small is that gaps between successive vocational training ... See full document

... frequency of marriages involving the ‘legitimisation’ of children can be illustrated by the example of France, where the proportion of marriages of couples with child(ren) increased rapidly during the 1980s and the ... See full document

... where ρ=(1-exp(-2))≈0.86 in our case (Hunter 2007). A geometrically weighted in- degree coefficient of zero, controlling for the number of edges, indicates that all degree distributions are equally preferred ... See full document

... In this paper, we use a unique dataset from rural Malawi that includes respondents’ HIV status as well as their subjective assessment of currently being infected with HIV. These data show that 12% of rural Malawian men ... See full document

... Figure 4 plots trends in TFR* by CPR*. Each country is represented by a line that connects three data points: from the pre-transitional high, to the first survey in the 1990s, to the latest survey. A key finding ... See full document

... Among males (Panel B), a different pattern emerges. All minority and immigrant men have higher odds of CIND and dementia than White men, but Blacks exhibit 4.1 times higher odds while both US-born Hispanics and ... See full document

... 2006) 4 shows, that, on the one hand, new sex preferences (in favor of girls) are likely to have evolved in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden as recently as in the 1980s, while, on the other hand, culturally rooted ... See full document

... In this paper we place our analysis within an economic theoretical framework, which is broadened to incorporate family care; but we take a multidisciplinary approach, adding demographic and sociological perspectives to ... See full document

... We can also see the role that cohabitation plays in shifting the age at marriage. Most studies analyzing cohabitation and marriage use competing risk hazard models to model choices between the two types of union (e.g., ... See full document

... According to the Global Wage Report 2014/15, women’s average wages range from 4% to 36 % less than men’s wages across countries; however, the gap widens in absolute terms for higher-earning women (ILO 2015). ... See full document

... (Figure 4), we find that, conversely, changes over time are not at all similar in Norway and Sweden, at least if we focus on the last two decades of our study ... See full document

... the number of respondents. We constructed a spell data set suitable for event history analysis. Each spell begins with the month of a couple’s first childbirth and ends either with the first month of gainful employment ... See full document

... While the overall decompositions helped to illuminate to a certain extent how norms pertaining to gender inequality in education differ across the two cohorts of Bangladeshi women examined here, detailed decompositions ... See full document

... week) and part-time (4-39 hours) employment spells. In the situation where the number of working hours was unknown, we created a separate level with unknown working hours. We also distinguished between different ... See full document

... ued postponement suggests a higher cumulative fertility due to some late first and higher order births. In the cohort that is age 17 in 1999, the postponement continues scenario implies a cumulative fertility level until ... See full document

... One can think of basically two different explanations for the relationship between unemployment spells and fertility that we have found for childless women and for mothers of two children (Note 6). On the one ... See full document

... A practical issue in the implementation of bootstrap method is how many bootstrap samples to draw. Efron (1987) suggested that 100 samples are sufficient for variance estimates, while other researchers have argued for a ... See full document

... Building on three distinct temporal primitives - tick, granule and instant - we suggest a unified timestamp with explicit precision and unambiguous textual representation emphasizing h[r] ... See full document

... When mortality rates are changing over time, as it was mentioned, the corresponding lifetime random variable cannot be unambiguously defined and other approaches for obtaining life exp[r] ... See full document